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very attractive and there are many fine shade trees. Two large 

 modern hotels and several smaller ones, with various hoarding houses, 

 accommodate the numerous visitors who remain in Hamilton. There 

 is here a street, Cedar Avenue, with a fine row of the native cedars 

 on each side. The grounds at Mt. Langton, the residence of the 

 governor, are very beautiful and contain many rare ti*ees and flowers. 

 In the immediate vicinity of Hamilton there are many interesting 

 places to visit, including numerous fine private residences and beau- 

 tiful gardens and parks. Prospect Hill, the headcpiarters of the 

 military organization of the islands, is not far away to the eastward. 

 Spanish Point, Clarence Cove, and Fairy Lands are noted places, a 

 short distance northward. 



Figure 4. — The native Palmetto. 



The native Palmetto is still common, both wild and in cultivation, 

 but is not nearly so abundant as it was originally, nor so large. This 

 tree is peculiar to the Bermudas, though it is very similar to our 

 southern Palmetto in appearance, but it bears sweet, edible berries in 

 large clusters. (See Part HI, ch. SO, and figures 30, 40.) In favor- 

 able places, in rich, moist soil it grows forty to fifty feet high, but it 

 is more frequently only from ten to fifteen feet. (Figure 4.) It 

 seems to grow rather slowly. 



